Well, between life being crazy and the intimidation I felt at attempting colored pencil portraits of my children, I stalled in my creative pursuits. Perhaps providentially, the works in progress of the aforementioned portraits were found and "played with" by my daughter such that they were reduced to wet, creased chunks of 140 lb paper. I take that as a sign to go back to some drawing that I might not be quite so worried about getting "perfect" and actually enjoy doing.

Recently my wife suggested I "do something" for myself to relieve my daily stress and so I began a new drawing. I am really excited about it and look forward to working on it at every opportunity. I am also practicing guitar again and returning to some cooperative storytelling that I had all but abandoned. I am enjoying myself immensely.

I think that I won't upload WIP's of this current work as I would like it to be a (hopefully pleasant) surprise for at least one member of this community.

I'll be seeing y'all (if there be any "y'all")


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-Alex (ACW-IV)